The cost to the West of restoring the status quo ante is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars.
The borders should not be changed by force and the status quo ante should be restored as a pre-condition for a subsequent demarcation and delineation of the border.
No need for a contingency -- status quo ante, right?
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Rather, I suspect we are now about halfway through a shakeout that began last March and will continue into early 2002--taking another year to return us to status quo ante.
Matters would be made worse by the likelihood that electronic devices so integral to modern life would also be damaged or destroyed, making reconstitution of the status quo ante profoundly problematic even if, somehow, power could be rapidly restored.
Evidently, he feels that even if force is used against him, it will be directed against his troops in Kuwait and exercised with a view to restoring the status quo ante, leaving him with the opportunity and the wherewithal to fight another day.
As long as Saddam Hussein believes that his allies and friends will not support American attacks that entail going beyond the status quo ante and as long as he judges that the United States will not unilaterally undertake such attacks against himself and his country, he is unlikely to view the Baker-Bush threats seriously.
Going back even to the status-quo ante will no longer be sufficient.
Yet, what is startling in all of this, besides the fact that each and every one of them has had a profoundly disruptive impact on what was then the status-quo ante thinking of their time, is that such experiences are not typical of what we see today in large, mature organizations, where fresh new ideas are often so scarce.
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